How do you make homemade butter?

Homemade butter is made by whipping cream. This process is called "churning". Here, the cream is whipped, first until it becomes whipped cream, and then until the fat separates from the liquid. The fat is pure butter, and the liquid is buttermilk. Often, butter is made from sour cream and then salt is added, which gives it the great taste of butter that most people love. However, in the butter you can buy in stores, some of the taste is washed away to improve its shelf life. This is not necessary when making homemade butter, and therefore the taste is better. 

TIP: Try adding flavor to your butter and making homemade spiced butter from scratch. You can try this recipe at ramson butter or chive butter

Ingredients for freshly churned butter

For real homemade butter, you basically need one ingredient: Cream. When cream is whipped/churned long enough, it turns into butter and milk when the fat and liquid separate. It is recommended that you season your butter with salt. The recipe uses Maldon flaked salt. Without salt, the butter mostly tastes like fat. You can also add other ingredients such as garlic and spices, and thus make your own garlic/spice butter from scratch. 

TIP: Try your homemade butter over a serving of filling oatmeal.

Recipe for soured butter with crème fraiche and cream

Typically, cream is soured into butter for about a day before it is churned. This gives the butter a better flavor, and the liquid is thus transformed into buttermilk. To make the process easier, so that the butter can be prepared without a day's preparation, use half the amount of cream and half the amount of crème fraiche. This gives the butter a wonderful authentic sour flavor. You can also choose to use buttermilk instead of crème fraiche, but the finished amount of butter will be less, since the fat content in buttermilk is lower. 

Freshly baked bread for homemade butter

If you really want to treat yourself, the ultimate treat is to serve homemade butter with freshly baked bread. Try it on, for example: these wonderful carrot cakes with whole grains, that are easy and quick to conjure up. You can also serve it on the delicious gluten-free buckwheat bread, where the butter tastes wonderful with spices and raisins. And or is it also fantastically delicious on a piece of crunchy crispbread with grains.